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None of the 18 people murdered in Israel by Islamic terrorists so far this year were soldiers.
The dead included a 6-year-old boy and his 8-year-old brother killed in a car ramming attack in Jerusalem, a British mother and daughters gunned down on the road, a 27-year-old from Connecticut traveling to a wedding, and an Italian tourist run over on the beach.
In some countries, the soldiers fight wars, in Israel, they fight to stop a genocide.
Islamic massacres are often defended with some variation of “the occupied have the right to resist”. The Muslim occupiers keep resisting the indigenous Jewish population by killing women and children, and random foreigners whose only crime is being non-Muslim in a land that the terrorists want to reclaim for Islam.
Ever since the “throw the Jews into the sea” era, the agenda has never changed.
After the shooting of two brothers driving through the occupied village of Huwara, the Palestinian Center for Policy and Survey Research conducted a poll asking the Arab Muslim settlers if they approved of the terrorist attack. 71% of them supported the killings.
When Yom Hazikaron, Israel’s Memorial Day, arrives on Monday evening, it finds a nation at war against a genocidal enemy that has half the world under siege.
In the past several weeks, five terrorists were arrested in Sweden, four in France in yet another plot to carry out an attack the Champs-Elysées, a teenager in the UK will be tried for plotting an attack at the Isle of Wight Festival and an Islamic terrorist leader in Australia was sentenced to 15 years in prison for planning to behead a non-Muslim and drape his body in the ISIS flag.
Stories like these have become so routine and overshadowed that we no longer pay any attention to them. Islamic terrorism unites us all. Its victims include America and Europe, India, China and Russia. It crosses the world from Africa to Asia and ends up on our doorstep.
With so much of the world under siege, it is a wonder that a tiny country so narrow you could walk its width has been the finger in the dike, holding out against a tide of death flooding the world.
The Jihad did not begin in Israel, but it was a warning to the world of what was to come. The prediction that we would one day all be Israelis, that Islamic terrorism would become a part of our everyday lives and we would go on while trying to ignore it, has long since come to pass.
But, as Israel enters its memorial day and red poppies known as the ‘blood of the maccabees’ mark the fallen, followed by Yom HaAtzamut, its independence day, there are still things, both good and bad, that we can learn from the Jewish State. The connection between the two Israeli commemorations, memorial day on Monday night and independence day on Tuesday night, is a powerful reminder that independence can only be maintained through a willingness to fight.
Surrender is not an option, but it has never been an option in a country where it would mean the mass murder, with occasional side mass rape, of the population. Israel has retreated, it has negotiated, but it has never surrendered. The terrorist attacks serve as a constant reminder of an enemy that obsessively kills women and children because its mission is total extermination.
Only 38% of the Israelis killed in Islamic terrorist attacks in 2023 were military age men. 27% were female and 22% were children. The murdered included 6-year-old and 8-year-old boys run down in the street, a 14-year-old boy on the way to synagogue and a 15-year-old British girl traveling with her family.
This is why the Israeli soldier serves. He is there to put his body on the line between Islamic terrorists and the most vulnerable and innocent children whose lives they lust to take.
Islamic terrorists don’t kill children by accident, they see it as their highest calling.
House Democrats recently protested the arrest of Sheikh Rashid Ghannouchi, of Tunisia’s Islamist Ennahda Movement, who had called for “unceasing war against the Americans”.
“There are no civilians in Israel. The population—males, females and children—are the army reserve soldiers, and thus can be killed,” Ghannouchi had also declared.
The Islamic cleric has often been described as a “moderate” by the media. Moderate Muslim clerics believe in exterminating all the women and children. What do the “extremists” believe?
Despite Israel’s turbulent politics, Yom HaZikaron, the commemoration of the fallen, briefly clarifies the stakes.
And the stakes are the children. And the world.
The Muslim world convinced the international community to pressure Israel by promising that the Jihad would stop there. “Give us Israel and it will end,” they urged. Despite all those promises, the Islamic war against civilization has spread across the world. Most of the world’s major nations and some of the minor ones have their own Islamic insurgency that plays by the same rules: alternating political demands with brutal massacres in the name of Islamic rule.
Generations of Israelis have gone to an endless war, sacrificed sons and daughters, to hold back the tide. They did it in defiance of the ignorance, hostility and pressures of the world.
They did it because they believed, they did it because they refused to die and they did it because surrendering to an enemy that gleefully butchers children was unthinkable.
Despite everything that has happened in the last generation, the world has learned little. But the Israelis have learned that peace is an illusion and that all they can do is hold the line.
When the torches are lit and loved ones weep, when the ‘blood of the maccabees’ blooms, a nation reckons again with the price that it pays for survival. Whatever myths pacifists may harbor and anti-war activists preach, there is no escape for any nation from paying that price.
Some nations have it paid by others, as the United States of America has done for so much of the globe, but in a world where evil is a reality writ in the black ink of the Koran, there can only be temporary refuges from the reckoning.
Israel still relies on a draft army. The price paid for war is a shared burden, but so is the price paid for appeasement. The fallen and their families come from all walks of life. These men and women, grandmothers, sisters, sons and nephews, have paid the world’s price in tears. They did not do it for the world, but their nation’s memorial day is nonetheless a lesson for the world.
Paying the price for freedom has long since become a cliche. Israelis do not pay the price for freedom. They pay it so that their children, their loved ones and their people are not eradicated from the earth by a brutal enemy that has no concept of mercy and worships barbarism.
The Israelis have come up against a choice that we will all have to make sooner or later. They chose not to die. The day will come when we may face that choice as starkly as they do.
Let us hope and pray that we choose well.
Part of the problem can be solved by bureaucratic means. Such as depriving the terrorists and their supporters of citizenship, residency permits, social welfare benefits, drivers licenses, and such. Few things more terrible than struggling with a bureaucracy 🙂
You mean, whereby the process is the punishment?
lol, definitely, the process is punishment 🙂
You mean like the California DMV?
I think they’re all like that except for in Arizona. They call it the MVD if I remember correctly (bad initialism) but they were competent. North Carolina is even worse than CA.
This isnt pedantry:
The functions, or points of control, you mention are not in Israeli hands. Area A is under PA control, along with more than 80% of the Palestinians. The various agreements between Israel and the PA ensure PA control…citizenship, residency permits, social welfare benefits, drivers licenses”. Israel can ban someone who left from returning, but thats a complicated diplomatic matter, at best. Israels Arab citizens are subject solely to Israeli law, which all Israelis are subject to and other than drivers licenses being withheld or qualified for standard legal reasons, such treatment as you recommend is moot.
The Madrid Conference, which Bush forced Shamir to attend, and all that followed was a trap.
What an excellent idea, we have very bureaucratic immigration procedures here in the UK.
Sadly the illegal immigrants don’t need to follow them, only those who legitimately need to be here do, it’s expensive and drawn out and can take years.
Illegals get to just come in and live in hotels paid by the taxpayers.
Normally, I like your comments. This is one is incorrect because it’s…well, AA, I hate to use the term ignorant of the facts, but it is.
Israel is STUCK fighting this shit F2F because its agreements with the PA tie its hands and there’s no way out except by way of force.
I’m not an expert on Israeli Law in particular, nor the law in general.
How about “uninformed?” Or “based on false assumptions?”
Daniel, this piece brought tears to my eyes, and since November of 2020 I have few tears left. Your eloquent defense of Israel and proof that its fight is the whole world’s should awaken everybody, including our Christian brothers and sisters who share this fight. May the whole world listen and take heed to the tocsin that you have sounded.
In the West, where does the moral code of altruism come from? JUDEO-CHRISTIANITY.
What is the moral justification (or more precisely rationalization) that justifies that the US government can confiscate the earned income of its citizens and transfer that tax-payer loot to fund the Palestinians and their terrorism? It’s ALTRUISM. “You are your brother’s keeper”. NEED MAKES RIGHT — that’s altruism.
“Facts don’t matter when you’re morally right” – AOC. What morality is AOC talking about? ALTRUISM.
Christian brothers and sisters? Brothers and sisters in the altruist destruction of America. The Lutherans, Catholics, Methodists, and sundry other Jewish and Christian organizations are actively engaged in and receiving tax-payer loot to aid and abet the illegal alien invasion and altruist destruction of America.
The Christian fundamentalists argue that the Founders never intended a separation of Judeo-Christianity and State? Well, the State is now funding the Judeo-Christians to help the destruction of America, all in the name of Judeo-Christian altruism. No more separation of religion and state.
Christianity prepared the ground for modern totalitarianism by entrenching three fundamentals in the Western mind, the worship of the supernatural, the reliance on faith, and the reverence for suicidal self-sacrifice, which is altruism. Christ was sacrificed on a cross for sinners and now America is being sacrificed on a cross for the whole world.
Same old crap, just a different day. Christianity prepared the ground for modern blah blah blah.
I’ve got some bad news for ya. According to the Wall Street Journal it looks like there is a “surge of faith” among young people. I guess they are tired of being lied to by the left and the atheists. This coming on the heels of the weeks long revival at Asbury University earlier this year.
www.wsj.com/articles/the-surprising-surge-of-faith-among-young-people-424220bd
Gee T., I guess you can’t win them all. Or in your case, any of them.
I mean, really….do you think anyone under 35 is going to sit around reading the musings of Ayn Rand, Lenny Peekaboo, or you?
You are fighting a losing battle.
thank you, we all need to be reminded sometimes
Good article. Be sure that “Col. G”, all of Israels former PM’s and CoGS and that Golani company in Beersheva get the memo.
In prayer, on the morning of Yom HaZikaron, we read psalm 9 and say the special prayer of remembrance for the departed. The person leading the prayers will be someone who suffered a personal loss; and his voice will waver and choke with renewed, intense sorrow.
That evening, as somehow we slide from the pain of the Day of Remembrance into the gratitude and pride of Independence Day, the leader of the evening prayers sounds a thrilling, sustained shofar blast.
The world refuses, in defiance of its Creator, to acknowledge the words of Torah.
No war against us, no lie to erase the truth of why and who we are, will prevail.
Always, with God’s help,
the nation of Israel lives.
beautiful, thank you for posting that
The blood of the Maccabees?
Ironically, the Maccabees were the Taliban of their day. They were hardcore, violent, religious fundamentalists fighting against Western Civilization, and Westernization, just like the fundamentalist Muslims of today. And just like today the actual reason the Maccabees went to war against Greek Hellenization is white-washed, evaded, and romanticized. They were no more romantic freedom fighters than Fidel Castro and Che Guevara, they were fighting for the tyranny of theocracy, just like Osama Bin Laden.
“The Birth of Monotheistic Religion – Aristotle Versus Religion” – Andrew Bernstein
Yes, “The blood of the Maccabees”. From 167-160 BCE they fought save their country from Antiochus, something you wouldn’t know about. It’s called sacrifice.
*I don’t recognize any such absurdity as service to my country. I recognize a moral responsibility to my freedom and liberty and the freedom and liberty of those I love.* — THX 1138
You will never be on the right side of anything because the only thing you care about is you.
The Macabees vs. the Seleucids was a generic “clash of civilizations”–notwithstanding that the Macabees own nationalism was religiously-based. Other groups had their own reasons for fighting those who controlled their countries and shit on their customs. Your M.O isn’t so much to lie outright and you do have some facts on your side when you comment, but your slight-of-hand is to yank everything out of context.
tone.deaf. heart.less
Ah yes, the Greeks. With their policy of mandatory infanticide for those born ‘imperfect’; their glorification of every conceivable form of sexual immorality up to and including paederasty; their firm belief that might makes right. I guess it all depends on what one considers civilized.
Would you be shocked to know that Rabbi Meir Kahane HYD anticipated your arguments over 50 years ago?
“If I were a Reform rabbi; if I were a leader of the Reform Establishment whose money and prestige have succeeded in capturing for him the leadership and voice of American Jewry; if I were one of the members of the Israeli Government’s ruling group; if I were an enlightened sophisticated, modern Jewish intellectual, I would climb the barricades and join in battle against the most dangerous of all Jewish holidays – Chanukah.” See the rest at
https://jtf.org/forum/index.php?topic=88788.0
Daniel, as an American, Israeli who served in the IDF in wars Yom Hazikaron has a very special place in my life. I can’t count the friends, children of friends and family including my adopted brother who were killed, wounded, murdered in wars, friendly fire, or terrorist’s attacks. At 70 now retired for many years I year to year find this day very hard, mostly walk around with tears in my eyes constantly thinking of those I and the Jewish people have lost, and what might have been. I can’t tell you how many times sitting around in our tanks we looked at each other and told each other we are fighting so our future won’t have to. Sadly we all know how well that has worked out. I pray daily that someday it will end with the realization that the truth is they still hoping for from the river to the sea and we must be prepared, and God forbid another Yom Kippur war were we weren’t prepared. At this time the siren will wail soon and the entire Jewish nation will stop what they are doing for that short time, cars will stop on highways people will get out of their cars, people will stop at cafes and stand for the fallen and hope they will remember what, and why the only Jewish country in the world is and will be another 3500 years. I also would hope that one day American’s will too hear a wail of a siren and remember the tens of thousands who gave their ultimate sacrifice so that they may enjoy their freedoms.
And just to put an exclamation point on Mr. Greenfield’s excellent column, today a Moslem drove his car at speed into crowds shopping at Jerusalem’s Mahane Yehuda market , injuring five, one seriously.
This is the ongoing war that never ends.
God’s word is truth. Daniel just sized things up very well. (Israel is under constant attack by its enemies and most unfairly.). Since the United States has withdrawn its influence in the Middle East over the past years, Russia has stepped into the void, spreading its tentacles across the region. (This is all prophesied in Ezekiel 38 and 39.). Getting closer as we speak…… We read of a time when many nations will make war against Israel, led by the ruler Russia. These nations include many of Israel’s neighbors to the north and east and several from Northern Africa. They come seeking to plunder its wealth and its people. This is the battle of Gog and Magog, However, fret not for Israel, God says because at the Battle of Gog and Magog, He will destroy the attacking armies in a single Day. GOD is the one who watches over Israel, and He never slumbers nor sleeps. Psalm 121:4.
There would be far fewer innocents murdered if the Israeli government enforced strict apartheid and adapted to the financial and societal penalties.
This wont happen until we raise the value of the murdered innocents.
Blame, shame, and guilt on those who support the low valuation of the murdered lives in favor of social and economic ìnteractions with harborers of the murder prone.
Are you actually suggesting that we separate Israeli Arabs, Christians and Druze from the Jewish population so that the Jews will survive? Is that so that the entire world will vilify us more than they already do? Or is that your incredibly naive answer to a problem you clearly don’t understand?.
Well, that’s not going to happen not just because Israelis aren’t about an Apartheid state but because Israelis are firmly committed to the idea that they can “make things work”.
In this they are like almost every Western country with the distinction that they are on the front line and are therefore on a fast track to Western denial.
Anyway, if Israel can afford their Covid measures which can’t be made to work things must be really not be so bad for a nation of soldiers.
The Muslims are pissed because the Israelis have been stealing their land since 1967. Any time they ever try to fight back against it they’re labeled terrorists and Israel brings all world super powers against them.
Thanks. I needed a good laugh today. If it makes you feel any better, the Arabs who now call themselves Palestinians have been stealing Jewish land for centuries and continue doing so thru the present day.
Go learn some history, dude.
1. The Muslim butchery of Jews in Palestine started in the 1920s before there even WAS a Jewish state.
2. The Palestinians founded their “liberation army” in 1964, when the “west bank” was occupied by Jordan and Gaza was occupied by Egypt.
3. During all those decades, world super-powers yawned and looked away.
Israel is fighting the peace. War is a foreign concept to the West.
>>War is a foreign concept to the West.
HA!HA!HA!LOL!LOL! Okay!
Yea okay but just remember they hate you for reminding them
Because they think they are on some new uncharted destiny they bring into actuality by believing real hard,
HA!HA!HA!LOL!LOL! Okay!
It’s not only Jews / Christians / Hindus / Buddhists that are paying the price for Islamism
By far the majority of victims are muslims …
Islamism must be eradicated from society …. Jihad for the sake of Allah written out of the Koran
This will prevent Islam being a Supersessionist religion